Best Architecture Degree Award TUGraz
La tesi di doppia laurea “Intervening at the Small Scale: The Preservation and Transformation of a Former Rectory” ha vinto il Best Architecture Degree presso TUGraz
Winner project: “Intervening at the Small Scale: The Preservation and Transformation of a Former Rectory”
Team members (students): Hanna Maria Gletthofer
Team member (supervisor): Floridi Giancarlo (Politecnico di Milano), Eva Sollgruber (Institut für Gebäudelehre);
The conversion, adaptation and preservation of buildings, i.e. the management of existing building stock, is playing an increasingly central role in architectural practice. In addition to cultural and socio-economic aspects, the sustainable use of existing buildings represents an opportunity to reduce the impact of the construction sector on climate change. This work deals with the concept of sustainability and interprets it from an architectural point of view based on an existing building structure in St. Jakob im Walde, in the Joglland region on the eastern edge of the Austrian Alps. The work aims to give new expression to an empty building, once used as a rectory, and to contribute to the development of rural areas with small interventions.
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Winners of Buildner Sustainability Award by Buildner Architecture Competitions
The ‘Phototropism Chimney’ project won the Buildner Sustainability Award at the Re:Form - New Life for Old Spaces competition.
“Competitions give us the chance to share our ideas and test our methodology in a wider context. They are both an opportunity to communicate and a way to grow as architects.”
Winner project: “Phototropism Chimney”
Team members (students): Hwanseo Lee, Kuenwoo Park, Hyeonjin Cho;
The first annual Re-Form: New Life for Old Spaces competition challenged architects and designers from around the world to breathe new life into neglected and forgotten spaces. As an ideas competition, Re-Form offered complete freedom in site selection, encouraging bold reinterpretations of existing buildings under 250 m²—regardless of location, program, or typology. Whether reimagining an abandoned storefront in an urban neighborhood or transforming a crumbling warehouse in the countryside, participants were invited to explore how adaptive reuse can offer sustainable and socially meaningful alternatives to demolition and new construction.
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Students from Politecnico di Milano win first prize at the ‘Dewan Award for Architecture 2025’
The competition organised by Tamayouz Excellence Award in collaboration with Dewan Architects + Engineers to rethink Baghdad Central Station
The Dewan Award for Architecture, organised in partnership with Dewan Architects + Engineers, is an annual thematic prize that calls on participants worldwide to respond to Iraq-specific challenges.
The winners were selected from 110 submissions received from 28 countries this year. For the first time in the award’s history, the final selection took place through a live jury session held at the Iraqi Engineers Union in Baghdad, as part of the inaugural Arab Architecture Festival in Baghdad.
The selection was based on the criteria set in the award’s brief, which invited participants to reimagine Baghdad’s Central Railway Station — a historic landmark poised for transformation.
Team members (students): Valentino Pierantoni, Mattia Azzolina, Marco Tullio Romano, Massimo Macrì, Rossella Di Cristo
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Winners of the UNDA Competition - Fontanamare beach
The project “SPIAGGIA APERTA, tra le dune e il mare, guardando la pineta” won the UNDA competition for the redevelopment of Fontanamare beach.
“The bold communication technique, which features a playful and unrealistic graphic style, does not detract from the high quality of the strategic and spatial choices. The proposal involves increasing the vegetation between the beach and the scrubland by eroding the base of the current car park, significantly reducing the number of parking spaces and avoiding further land consumption; the space freed up allows for the introduction of a permanent covered pavilion, which brings together the various functions that are subject to seasonal variation. The proposals for micro-devices and temporary installations are measured, widespread, distinctive and coordinated. The principles of diversification, flexibility and adaptability are worth noting... The approach is innovative, conceiving an intervention that can be implemented in different phases and over time.”
Winner project: “SPIAGGIA APERTA, tra le dune e il mare, guardando la pineta”
Team members (students): Riccardo Roldi, Nicola Russo, Gianluca Rizzotti and Andrea Paoletti.
Students Riccardo Roldi, Nicola Russo and Gianluca Rizzotti are enrolled in the Master's Degree course in Urban Design, while Andrea Paoletti is an alumnus of the Master's Degree course in Built Environment - Interiors
Link of the competition and an article about the victory